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Mayor Emanuel and CPS Announce Every Classroom Will Be Air Conditioned by Spring 2017

Comprehensive Air Conditioning Project to be Completed One Year Ahead of Schedule

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Monday, August 22, 2016

For more information, contact:CPS Office of CommunicationsPhone: 773-553-1620

CHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools leadership today announced that the District’s comprehensive air conditioning plan will be completed by spring 2017, which is one year ahead of the project’s scheduled completion date. Since 2011, the City of Chicago and CPS have made $135 million in investments to provide air conditioning to 222 schools. The remaining 61 schools without air conditioning will receive air conditioning by spring 2017.

“Chicago’s children deserve classrooms that are comfortable, safe and modern – and accelerating our air-conditioning investments is the right thing to do for our students,” Mayor Emanuel said. “I’m pleased that CPS is investing in much-needed building projects to make sure that all our students can go to class in air-conditioned learning environments that will help them succeed.”

In 2014, Mayor Emanuel and CPS initiated a large-scale plan to bring air conditioning to all CPS classrooms, after installing air conditioning in 70 schools the previous summer. The project was scheduled to be completed in 2018, but the plan has been accelerated to ensure every CPS student will attend class in an air-conditioned classroom before spring 2017.

The 61 schools that will receive air conditioning prior to spring 2017 under the accelerated project timeline are listed below:

Amundsen HS

Bennett

Bogan HS

Bouchet

Chicago Tech Academy

Clark, G

Cook

Cooper

Crown

Daniel Hale Williams Prep

Darwin

Dunbar HS

Epic Charter HS

Field

Foreman HS

Gage Park HS

Gale

Graham

Harlan HS

Hirsch HS

Kelly HS

Kilmer

King ES

Lake View HS

Lasalle II

Lincoln Park HS

Lovett

Lowell

Madison

Manley HS

Mann

Marshall HS

Mason

North Lawndale College Prep Charter – Christiana

Parkside

Peace & Education HS

Perez

Perspectives Charter Leadership Academy

Perspectives Charter/IIT Math and Science Academy

Phillips HS

Phoenix Military HS

Piccolo

Richards HS

Roosevelt HS

Ruggles

Shoop

Stagg

Suder

Sullivan HS

Sumner

Tanner

Tilden HS

Till

University of Chicago Charter– Donoghue

University of Chicago Charter – Woodlawn

Urban Prep Charter – West

Warren

Wells HS

Whistler

Woodson

Yates

Since 2011, the City of Chicago and CPS have invested more than $135 million to ensure every classroom in the city is air conditioned. Investments were made at the following schools:

Alcott ES

Alcott HS

Aldridge

Armour

Armstrong, G

Ashburn

Ashe

Barnard

Barry

Barton

Bass

Bateman

Beaubien

Beethoven

Beidler

Belding

Bell

Belmont-Cragin

Blaine

Bond

Boone

Bowen HS

Brentano

Bridge

Bright

Brighton Park

Brown, R

Brown, W

Budlong

Burbank

Burke

Burley

Burnham

Burnside

Burr

Caldwell

Camras

Carnegie

Carson

Carter

Carver, G

Castellanos

Cather

Chappell

Chavez

Chicago High School for the Arts (Contract)

Chicago Vocational HS

Chopin

Cleveland

Clinton

Clissold

Coles

Columbus

Corkery

Courtenay

Curtis

Davis, N

Decatur

Dewey

Diego

Disney II

Dixon

Dodge

Doolittle

Drake

Dubois

Dulles

Ebinger

Edgebrook

Ericson

Esmond

Fairfield

Falconer

Faraday

Farnsworth

Fenger HS

Fernwood

Fiske

Fort Dearborn

Foster Park

Franklin

Fuller

Galileo

Gallistel

Gary

Gillespie

Goethe

Goudy

Gray, W

Gregory

Gresham

Gunsaulus

Haley

Hamilton

Hammond

Hanson Park

Harper HS

Harte

Harvard

Haugan

Hay

Hayt

Healy

Hedges

Hefferan

Henderson

Hendricks

Henry

Herzl

Holden

Holmes

Hubbard HS

Hughes, C

Inter-American

Jahn

Jensen

Johnson

Joplin

Jungman

Kellman

Kellogg

Kelvyn Park HS

Kershaw

Kozminski

Lane Tech HS

Langford

Lawndale

Leland

Lewis

Libby

Lincoln

Locke, J

Logandale

Lozano

Manierre

Marquette

Marshall, T

Mays

Mcclellan

Mccormick

Mcpherson

Melody

Mitchell

Mollison

Monroe

Moos

Morgan Park HS

Mount Greenwood

Mount Vernon

Mozart

Murphy

Nash

Nettelhorst

Nicholson Tech Academy

Nixon

North River

Oglesby

O'Keeffe

Onahan

Otis

Owen

Owens

Palmer

Park Manor

Parker

Peirce

Penn

Pershing

Plamondon

Poe

Portage Park

Prussing

Pulaski

Pullman

Raby HS

Ravenswood

Ray

Reavis

Reilly

Reinberg

Revere

Rogers

Ryder

Sabin

Salazar

Saucedo

Sauganash

Seward

Shabazz Charter – Sizemore

Sheridan

Sherman

Sherwood

Shoesmith

Skinner North

Smyser

Smyth

Southshore

Spencer Tech Academy

Spry

Stone

Stowe

Swift

Talcott

Talman

Taylor

Thomas

Thorp, J

Tiltom

Von Linne

Wadsworth

Ward, J

Ward, L

Washington HS

Washington, H

Waters

Webster

Wells, I

Wentworth

Whitney

Whittier

Young

Zapata

Chicago Public Schools serves 392,000 students in 652 schools. It is the nation’s third-largest school district.

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